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Do you ever wonder how important our dreams are to us as humans? I know there's a huge ammount of speculation about why we dream and what our dreams mean. There are the Freudian interpretations, those who believe dreams are a way of expressing our past, those who think they are predictions of the future, and all sorts. I have always thought that they are the sorting of our thought lives, the

output for subconscious thoughts, fears, desires and behaviour that needs to be dealt with in a safe and detatched place. I sometimes wonder though, what exactly would happen if we didn't dream? Would it somehow seriously damage us psychologically? God is such a wise creator, I'm pretty sure they must have some crucial function to our wellbeing, as everything else about our bodies seem to. Then there's the way in which dreams are used in the Bible for God to speak to people. Does God still speak to us in our dreams? Maybe. Maybe the scenarios and feelings conjured before us in our dreams are there to act as warnings, as rebukes, as encouragements. Certainly I have often felt chastised by a dream when I have awoken from it, and it will often prompt in me a positive or more considered change in behavior or priority for the rest of that day. Lately I have been having some vivid and disturbing dreams, and whilst I'm not wishing to read anything specific into what I have been through in my troubled slumbers, I am aware that they have caused me to think differently and to process thoughts which may otherwise have gone unprocessed. I figure that most things God sends our way are there for a reason. For now, it's all a bit of a question mark...but I know when I get to heaven I will have plenty of time to ask all about the mystery of dreams. Bring it on!